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Mukembo, Stephen C.; Edwards, M. Craig; Robinson, J. Shane – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
Ensuring food security for a growing populace amidst an aging farmer population together with a decline in youth engagement in agriculture remains a global challenge. This is more distressing for developing countries, such as Uganda, that rely on subsistence farming to meet their food production demands, including job-creation for at least 75% of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Entrepreneurship, Youth Employment, Active Learning
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Mukembo, Stephen C.; Edwards, M. Craig; Ramsey, Jon W.; Henneberry, Shida R. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2015
The decline of youth engagement in agriculture worldwide amidst an increasing global population remains a big challenge to ensuring food security for future generations. This phenomenon is worsened by the shortage of professional female agriculturists, though they comprise about 60% to 80% of the traditional workforce in the agriculture sector of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Agricultural Occupations, Secondary School Students